1.   A number of crimes were not covered by the amnesty law.

2.   The ruling ARENA party and its allies in the legislature passed the amnesty law with a simple majority after failing to win cross-party support.

3.   Although Argentine amnesty laws protect former members of the military from prosecution for abuses during the dictatorship.

4.   And the Bosnian parliament passed an amnesty law Monday for all those who fought in opposing armies and did not commit war crimes.

5.   As in other countries with similar histories, amnesty laws allowed members of the military to escape prosecution for human rights abuses.

6.   A special session of the Mexican Congress is expected to vote on the amnesty law next week.

7.   After the Bosnian government passed an amnesty law three months ago, U.N. officials considered it safe for the men to return.

8.   But amnesty laws allowed scores of military officers to avoid prosecution.

9.   But restive military officers staged violent uprisings that Alfonsin said forced him to introduce the amnesty laws.